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Learning Analytics and Digital Badges: Potential Impact on Student Retention in Higher Education
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Mah, Dana-Kristin – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016
Learning analytics and digital badges are emerging research fields in educational science. They both show promise for enhancing student retention in higher education, where withdrawals prior to degree completion remain at about 30% in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries. This integrative review provides an…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Recognition (Achievement)
Indexing Theory and Retrieval Effectiveness.
Robertson, Stephen E. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1978
Describes recent attempts to make explicit connections between the indexing process and the use of the index or information retrieval system, particularly the utility-theoretic and automatic indexing models of William Cooper and Stephen Harter. Theory and performance, information storage and retrieval, search stage feedback, and indexing are also…
Descriptors: Indexing, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Models
Digital Image Representation and Access.
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Mostafa, Javed – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
Reviews the literature relating to the development and application of modern imaging technology between 1987 and 1993. Highlights include image representation, including image data, compression, and image formats; and image access, including indexing and modeling, user interface design, and distributed access. (143 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Indexing, Information Storage
Report on Approaches to Database Translation. Final Report.
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Gallagher, Leonard; Salazar, Sandra – 1984
This report describes approaches to database translation (i.e., transferring data and data definitions from a source, either a database management system (DBMS) or a batch file, to a target DBMS), and recommends a method for representing the data structures of newly-proposed network and relational data models in a form suitable for database…
Descriptors: Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Data Processing
Structured Information Management Using New Techniques for Processing Text.
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Gibb, Forbes; Smart, Godfrey – Online Review, 1990
Describes the development of a software system, SIMPR (Structured Information Management: Processing and Retrieval), that will process documents by indexing them and classifying their subjects. Topics discussed include information storage and retrieval, file inversion techniques, modelling the user, natural language searching, automatic indexing,…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Classification, Computer Software Development, Documentation
Computer-Assisted Counseling.
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Myers, Roger A.; Cairo, Peter C., Ed. – Counseling Psychologist, 1983
Presents a state of the art view of computer assisted counseling in seven articles dealing with career counseling, decision making, counseling techniques, information storage, and models of computer applications in counseling. Related developments in Great Britain are also discussed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Computer Oriented Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Techniques
Correctional Data Analysis Systems.
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Friel, Charles M.; And Others – 1980
Designed to help the correctional administrator meet external demands for information, this detailed analysis of the demand information problem identifies the sources of requests for and the nature of the information required from correctional institutions and discusses the kinds of analytic capabilities required to satisfy most demand information…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers